On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 05:53, manolis wrote: > Hi to all the people in the list. I have some questions about my linux mdk > 9.1 installation. > > #1. After a "by-mistake" reset at the time the mdk 9.1 was doing fsck check > in my system. Some files have been lost. > The only way to find out what files are missing from my installation is > kpackage that give a long list of all files in every rpm of the system. > I am pretty newbie to linux so I would like to make a total rpm check in my > system so all the files that are missing from my system to be updated from > the installation disks. Is it possible? > I don't want to reinstall the OS. I take the "reinstallation" of mdk 9.1 as a > defeat! > In the past 3 moths I fought heavilly with all the problems I faced , trying > to avoid reinstallation .. :)
Look - especially for a newbie, reinstallation ain't nothing more than a lesson - doing repeated installations only makes you smarter about how you're installing it, how you're making use of your disk space for optimal performance, what packages and options you're choosing from the beginning...I wish I could count how many times I've "reinstalled" any distribution of linux - it's thousands, mate, thousands... Meanwhile, a consideration to make is that you've corrupted the file system by accident - and that's alright - but if you do an installation again, you can choose a file system like ReiserFS that can generally handle such "accidents" - use it for your / and your /home partition - you might be surprised at the results. > #2. the last days I cannot load inside KDE any application that wants su > rights. (like mcc for example). I can go to terminal and type "su" and then > mcc to load it . But when I click on the icon the application doesn't load! > The same time a strange problem has appeared. When I login in KDE I get the > network configuration wizard that wants me to enter root password to > configure my network. I must click cancel to enter to desktop. > I don't know for sure, but I think those two problems are related some how. I'd tend to reckon that the system's corrupted, the /etc/passwd is probably corrupted - best reinstall. -- Sat Jul 26 09:30:00 EST 2003 09:30:00 up 12 days, 1:33, 3 users, load average: 0.27, 0.17, 0.14 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ & RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Compassion -- that's the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them. -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3
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